Yet another British gangster style film, Love, Honour and Obey still manages to come up with a unique viewing of life as a gang member. Jonny (Miller) being rather bored with his dead end courier job elicits the help of his friend Jude (Law) whose Uncle Ray (Winstone) is the leader of a North London gang. Fitting right in with the gang culture Jonny aspires for more action and greater things so he steals some cocaine and starts up a war with a South London gang, all of which he does without the sanction of Ray. Ray meanwhile is getting married to a soap opera star called Sadie (Frost) and has more important matters to deal with. Ray’s philosophy is that work is work and should not impinge on family life. A fact that Jonny does not quite appreciate leading to personal consequences when he takes a particular dislike to one of the South London gang members (Ifans) and starts his own personal vendetta.

This movie has a bit of everything with some violence, some funny scenes and inbetween all the action karaoke sessions by the gang members. There is good acting by the cast and overall a good script and storyline that most viewers would find entertaining.

VIDEO

There are two choices provided in which to watch the film: an anamorphic widescreen version presented in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio or a 4x3 Panned and Scanned version. Neither option represents a truly sharp transfer with medium level grain present throughout almost the entire movie and numerous examples of shimmer effects. There are also quite a few black and white specks that came across from the original film.

The dual layer disk has each version on different layers so there is no layer change within the feature.

AUDIO
A Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack is provided that again is less than perfect. There was a low level hiss present throughout much of the movie. The audio is focussed towards the front speakers and the gunfight scenes in particular would have benefited from a surround encoded track as overall it sounds rather one dimensional.

The audio synch was Ok and the dialogue in general was clear. The actors speak with broad Cockney accents but they are relatively easy to understand and add to the feel of the setting.

EXTRAS
There are no extras unless you count being able to choose between pan and scan and anamorphic widescreen. There is scene selection and English subtitles.

A quite entertaining movie that just has a few problems with the video and audio quality